The Right Approach

Written by eklastic

I’m more of a minimalist when it comes to Christmas decorations. I found these elves or dwarves or whatever they are appealing.

A single Christmas bauble can radiate all the Christmas spirit I need.

But the best are homemade decorations. The right colours, a little bit of gold, stars …

The joy is really in the making, the tinkering and the preparing of the items.

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Decorations

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24 thoughts on “The Right Approach”

      4. It’s my seasonal project this year. To find beer bottles with cool bottle tops and make them into tree decorations (and earrings). Did you know that the coolest bottle tops come from Belgium? The have a brewery (Brasserie d’Achouffe) that has adorable little garden gnomes on their bottle caps? Perfect for Christmas.

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      6. Do an extensive research project! My first bottle cap earrings are from a South African co-operative. They were selling their wares at a German christmas market. They were pretty crude but I still wear them (gold+red, Castle Lager)l. Then a friend brought a pair from South Africa in green with Hunter’s Cider on it. And this year I discovered the Belgian ones. And that got me going, I bought a little punch to make holes into them and I fashioned earrings out of the nicest ones and those Spanish ones with the star are Christmas tree ornaments. Kilkenny are a lovely red and green. Carlsberg (in gren with a stylised clover leaf) will be perfect for the next Paddy’s Day. And I’m now exploring various lemonades. There is a brand “Thomas Hardy” (they do ginger beers and tonic waters and the like) they have lovely pastel shades with “TH” on it (which happen to be my sister’s initials). It’s really fun and I get asked about my earrings quite often.

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      10. Whatever that empty rectangle means (some emojis are not displayed properly). — Looked at it on the phone. No need to cry. Rather test the local beer! (What do Foster’s bottle caps look like? I remember they’re amazing add a few years back to the music of Carmina Burana.)

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  2. Since the children grew up (and they have children of their own now) I’ve rather got out of making Christmas decorations. Plenty of ideas here! Though maybe not enough beer being ingested in this house to take one of your projects forward…

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    1. I look like right old drunkard, don’t I? But I’ve been asking around and it turns out that quite a few friends have been collecting intersting bottle caps over the years and are willing to share. I have a few from Iowa that I have no idea who brought them. The Belgium beer (I’ll show these adorable caps soon) are too rich for me, turns out I have cheap taste. And for bright summer colours I turn towards fruit juices (I have pink shark – no idea where from – and fruit segments in bright colours).

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  3. When my children were young, I enjoyed making decorations with them, and their job was always to decorate the tree. These days, my sitting room is decorated with carefully selected items. Some are from the local garden centre and collected over the years, but the fireplace is decorated with items from the German Christmas shop in York. We drive to York every December, but I fear the fireplace might be getting too full. Thank you for joining in with us.

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    1. Christmas decoration was only done by my father. The tradition is different: In Germany we only put up the tree on the 24th, in secret, i.e. the children are not allowed to see it. They will see it for the first time that night, with the presents and lights (even if that means walking to your bedroom through the garden because the living room is barred until the right time). But obviously, there are many decorations like the advent wreaths etc. before the 24th.

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